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Huhtamaki is a key global provider of sustainable packaging solutions for consumers around the world, enabling wellbeing and convenience. Our innovative products protect on-the-go and on-the-shelf food and beverages, ensuring hygiene and safety, and help prevent food waste.
We are committed to protecting food, people and the planet and are on the lookout for passionate and consummate professionals to join our growing team to help us deliver on our ambitious 2030 Strategy. We look for colleagues who Care, Dare and Deliver.
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Job Summary
This job description is a general guide of the duties of the Flexo Operator working on the Flexo Printer Cutter. The functions are not all inclusive, and the employee may perform other functions in order to get the job done.
Essential Functions
- Assists in assuring accurate speed of the machines.
- Assists and makes cutting adjustments by removing the die assembly.
- Secures correct ink for the press and keeps ink pumps full as needed.
- Maintains correct viscosity of inks as needed.
- Ensures that all guards and safety shields are in place.
- Ensure plates are clean by washing several times during shift.
- Ensures that area is clean at all times.
- May place rolls of paper onto the press.
- Assist in moving pallets and baskets, wraps pallets at shrink wrapper, and moves pallets from Flexo area into warehouse area.
- Remove product from delivery belt and stack on pallet. Inspect for print, cut, and quality.
- Works closely with Operator in all operations of the equipment to ensure safety, quality of product produced, make adjustment, and configure the press.
- Makes roll splices from roll to roll as needed.
- Records roll information on roll sheets as needed.
- Certified to operate electric pallet jack and forklift.
- Change gears on press during make-ready.
- The functions are not all-inclusive, and the employee may perform other functions in order to get the job done.
Job Qualifications
Required
- Mechanical knowledge of the working of a press.
- Familiar with hand tools.
- Maximum time spent on the production floor in a high noise, climate-controlled environment.
- Must use PPE to include ear plugs or muffs, hair net, and safety glasses.
- Job requires some lifting up to 50lbs during a 12-hour shift
- Bending, lifting, turning, walking, standing, climbing, crawling, and twisting body continuously during a 12-hour shift
Environment
- Manufacturing environment
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What We Do
Huhtamaki is a key global provider of sustainable packaging solutions for consumers around the world, enabling wellbeing and convenience. Our innovative products protect on-the-go and on-the-shelf food and beverages, ensuring hygiene and safety, and help prevent food waste. We embed sustainability in everything we do. We are committed to achieving carbon neutral production and designing all our products to be recyclable, compostable or reusable by 2030.
We are a participant in the UN Global Compact and EcoVadis has awarded Huhtamaki with the Gold medal for performance in sustainability. To play our part in managing climate change, we have set science-based targets that have been approved and validated by the Science Based Targets initiative.
With 100 years of history and a strong Nordic heritage we operate in 37 countries and 103 operating locations around the world. Our values Care Dare Deliver guide our decisions and help our team of around 18 000 employees make a difference where it matters. Our 2023 net sales totaled EUR 4.2 billion. Huhtamaki Group is headquartered in Espoo, Finland and our parent company, Huhtamäki Oyj, is listed on Nasdaq Helsinki Ltd. Find out more about how we are protecting food, people and the planet on www.huhtamaki.com